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From Peasants to Farmers : The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)
From Peasants to Farmers The Migration from Balestrand Norway to the Upper Middle West - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History Author:Jon Gjerde This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the immigrants' cultural adaptations to America.